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Re:So what’s wrong with 1975 programming? (2006) by mattowen_uk on Sunday May 09, 2021 @09:05AM (#27095631)
Adding my voice to this. I know that the article was written in 2006, but still. If one wants to be taken seriously as a writer, one shouldn't insert puerile jokes for 12 year olds into their prose. It made me wince when when I read it, and I was ready to comment here about it, but GP got here first.
Re:So what’s wrong with 1975 programming? (2006) by throwaway894345 on Sunday May 09, 2021 @10:03AM (#27095980)
Tell that to Shakespeare and Chaucer.
Re:So what’s wrong with 1975 programming? (2006) by geofft on Sunday May 09, 2021 @11:01AM (#27096481)
Shakespeare and Chaucer were not writing technical documentation.
Re:So what’s wrong with 1975 programming? (2006) by throwaway894345 on Sunday May 09, 2021 @05:24PM (#27099921)
I was responding in jest to the narrow claim about not making puerile jokes if one wishes to be taken as a serious writer.